The House of Ficquelmont is the name of a noble family from
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gr ...
dating back to the 14th century whose filiation is established with Henry de Ficquelmont, knight, dead before 1386.Henri Jougla de Morenas, ''Grand Armorial de France'', tome III, 1935 page 289.Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange, ''Dictionnaire des familles françaises anciennes ou notables à la fin du XIXe siècle.'', tome XVIII Fel-For. - 1922, pages 126-129. /ref>
This family produced different branches in
France
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,
Austria
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,
Belgium
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, and became extinct in 1948 in the male line with Louis-Charles de Ficquelmont de Vyle and in the female line in 1991 with countess Ghislaine de Ficquelmont de Vyle.
Origins
The origins of the Ficquelmont Family is the lordship of Ficquelmont (currently
Thumeréville
Thumeréville () is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
The following is a list of the 591 communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of France. ...
) in
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gr ...
, near
Briey
Briey (; german: Brietz) is a former commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Val de Briey.
The Ficquelmont family is known since 1138, with Gérard de Ficquelmont who gave a donation in 1138 but its filiation is established without doubts only since Henry de Ficquelmont, knight, dead before 1386.
According to the genealogist Charles Poplimont, who wrote a genealogy of the de Ficquelmont family in ''La Belgique Héraldique'' (1866),Charles Poplimont,''La Belgique héraldique'', volume IV, 1866, pages 225-232. /ref> Henri de Ficquelmont, was married with Marie le Loup and he was son of Erard de Ficquelmont and grandson of Manassés de Ficquelmont, who was living in 1346 and Marie Dannoy.
Lorraine and the Holy Roman Empire
In Lorraine where they sat as hereditary members of the
upper house
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of the Parlement de Nancy, the ruling institution of French Lorraine that also served as the courts of appeal of the Royal province. During that period, the Ficquelmonts' primary seats were the châteaux of
Dieuze
Dieuze (; ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
People
Dieuze was the birthplace of:
*Charles Hermite, mathematician
* Edmond François Valentin About, novelist, publicist and journalist
* Émile Friant, ...
(birthplace of
Count Charles-Louis de Ficquelmont
Karl Ludwig, Count of Ficquelmont (; french: Charles-Louis comte de Ficquelmont; 23 March 1777 – 7 April 1857) was an Austrian aristocrat, statesman and Field marshal of the Austrian Imperial army of French noble origin.
Biography
French ...
(1777-1857), Parroy and their Hôtel in Nancy. The Ficquelmonts were also instrumental in founding and funding several Lorrainer religious institutions such as the Holy Cross College of Nancy, the Cathedral of Metz and the
abbeys
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The conc ...
of
Remiremont
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and Flavigny.
The members of the Ficquelmont family had been Great Officers of the Ducal Court of
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gr ...
Dukes
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. In the 17th and 18th century were:
* Leonard de Ficquelmont, colonel of
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine
Charles IV (5 April 1604, Nancy – 18 September 1675, Allenbach) was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Franc ...
, commanding the ''Blainville regiment'';
* Robert de Ficquelmont, Great-
chamberlain
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*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
of
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
Charles III (18 February 1543 – 14 May 1608), known as ''the Great'', was Duke of Lorraine from 1545 until his death.
Life
He was the eldest surviving son of Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, and Christina of Denmark.
In 1545, his father died, and ...
;
* his grandson, Jean-François de Ficquelmont,Woelmont, ''Op. cit.'', p. 343-344. Great-
chamberlain
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Profession
*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
cavalry
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;
* his son,
Reichsgraf
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Charles de Ficquelmont Great-
chamberlain
Chamberlain may refer to:
Profession
*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
cuirassiers
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commanding the imperial guard's
cavalry
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;
* his son,
Reichsgraf
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Jacques-Charles de Ficquelmont, colonel of the guard and Great-
chamberlain
Chamberlain may refer to:
Profession
*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
warlord
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s at the service of
France
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,
Spain
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, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
and the
Papacy
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. The perfect illustration being Count Leonard de Ficquelmont, colonel of
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine
Charles IV (5 April 1604, Nancy – 18 September 1675, Allenbach) was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Franc ...
, colonel of
King Philip V of Spain
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who died in 1709 during the
War of the Spanish Succession
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Empress Maria Theresa of Austria
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Habsburgs
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Duchy of Lorraine
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It was founded in 959 following t ...
became part of the
Kingdom of France
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and the Ficquelmonts were allowed to choose to serve and live either in
France
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or in the
Empire
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.
France
Some others members of the family had chosen France.
The count Charles Henri de Ficquelmont was introduced at the Honors of the French Court (Honneurs de la Cour) in 1777 and 1789.
In 1789, during the
French Revolution
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, the Ficquelmonts, as
aristocrats
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At the time of the word' ...
, were targeted by the
Revolution
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, and several members of the family were
beheaded
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br> leaving the remaining ones no other choice than fleeing the country, joining fellow aristocrats as ''
émigré
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French Huguenots
Many French Huguenots fled France followi ...
s''.
After the
French Revolution
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, the Ficquelmont family remained divided into different lines and spread in
Austria
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,
France
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and
Belgium
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.
Austrian Empire
Some Ficquelmonts who had followed Emperor Francis of Lorraine to the Imperial Court and therefore already established themselves in Austria, chose to settle in Austrian territory. Of that tight branch are
Reichsgraf
Imperial Count (german: Reichsgraf) was a title in the Holy Roman Empire. In the medieval era, it was used exclusively to designate the holder of an imperial county, that is, a fief held directly ( immediately) from the emperor, rather than from ...
Charles de Ficquelmont, Great-
chamberlain
Chamberlain may refer to:
Profession
*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
of
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I (Francis Stephen; french: François Étienne; german: Franz Stefan; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He became the ruler of the Holy ...
cuirassiers
Cuirassiers (; ) were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers, discarding their lances and adop ...
commanding the imperial guard's
cavalry
Historically, cavalry (from the French word ''cavalerie'', itself derived from "cheval" meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback. Cavalry were the most mobile of the combat arms, operating as light cavalry ...
and his son,
Reichsgraf
Imperial Count (german: Reichsgraf) was a title in the Holy Roman Empire. In the medieval era, it was used exclusively to designate the holder of an imperial county, that is, a fief held directly ( immediately) from the emperor, rather than from ...
Jacques-Charles de Ficquelmont, colonel of the guard and Great-
chamberlain
Chamberlain may refer to:
Profession
*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
of
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I (Francis Stephen; french: François Étienne; german: Franz Stefan; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He became the ruler of the Holy ...
, commanding the cavalry regiment of Kalchreuth then of
. By the end of the 18th century, they had settled in large estates in the then
Austrian Netherlands
The Austrian Netherlands nl, Oostenrijkse Nederlanden; french: Pays-Bas Autrichiens; german: Österreichische Niederlande; la, Belgium Austriacum. was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The p ...
.
Part of the French Ficquelmonts chose to
emigrate
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to
Austria
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where the family had kept close ties (for instance, Charles de Ficquelmont (1724–1792), had followed Francis I of Lorraine, Holy Roman Emperor at the Imperial Court of
Vienna
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when he was 12 and had stayed there ever since serving as colonel of the Imperial guard and (from 1764) Great-
chamberlain
Chamberlain may refer to:
Profession
*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
of
Emperors
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Francis I Francis I or Francis the First may refer to:
* Francesco I Gonzaga (1366–1407)
* Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414–1450), reigned 1442–1450
* Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France, reigned 1515–1547
* Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lau ...
and
Joseph II
Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: ''Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam''; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 29, 1780 unt ...
) various estates and strong supports all the way to the
Habsburg
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s themselves (for instance,
Archduchess
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Marie-Christine personally placed count Joseph de Ficquelmont in
Emperor Leopold II
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's care in a letter dated from January 30, 1792).
This branch took part of the counter revolutionary's Army of the Princes and Imperial Austrian Army. It is best represented by:
* Count Charles Louis de Ficquelmont (Reichsgraf von Ficquelmont), born in the castle of
Dieuze
Dieuze (; ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
People
Dieuze was the birthplace of:
*Charles Hermite, mathematician
* Edmond François Valentin About, novelist, publicist and journalist
* Émile Friant, ...
on March 23, 1777; he became one of the most powerful Austrian
diplomat
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and
statesman
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of his time and even succeeded Prince
Klemens von Metternich
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein ; german: Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternic ...
as acting
Minister-President
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of the
Austrian Empire
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Napoleonic wars
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. Dorothea and Charles-Louis only had one child:
* Elizabeth-Alexandrine, countess de Ficquelmont by birth and
princess
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Princess as a subst ...
The last descendants of the Austrian branch had settled in what was
Austrian Netherlands
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(nowadays Belgium) prior to the
French Revolution
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. They had fled the country as it was occupied by the French during the
French Revolutionary Wars
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then integrated into the
Napoleon's
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Empire
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. But, following the fall of the
First French Empire
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, the
Austrian Netherlands
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became part of the
United Kingdom of the Netherlands
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that had just been created by the Treaty of Vienna, and the Dutch Ficquelmonts returned to establish themselves in the newly founded kingdom.
This branch had two lines:
*The first one, founded by count Antoine-Charles de Ficquelmont (1753-1833), who remained faithful to
King William I of the Netherlands
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He was the son of the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who went ...
following the
Belgian Revolution of 1830
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*Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language ...
. That line is extinct since the early 20th century.
* The other line, founded by count Florimond Aloïs de Ficquelmont (1763-1818). His grandson took up Belgium nationality in 1884 and therefore entered the
Belgian nobility
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History
...
.
Titles
* Count von Ficquelmont (Austria 1736) (extinct)
*
Reichsgraf
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von Ficquelmont personally granted to Jacques-Charles de Ficquelmont,
colonel
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In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...
and
Chambellan
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Villages located within the commune include: Babino, Cadette, Grande Plaine, Granger
Granger may ...
of the Holy Roman Empereur (extinct)
* Count van Ficquelmont (Netherlands 1822) for Antoine-Charles-Ignace de Ficquelmont (1753-1833) and his descendants in the Ficquelmont Family (extinct in 1899).
* Count van Ficquelmont (Netherlands 1822) for Florimond-Joseph-Ignace de Ficquelmont and his descendants in the Ficquelmont Family (extinct in 1948 in male line and in 1991 in female line).F. de Saint-Simon, Dictionnaire de la noblesse française.
* Count (Belgium 1855 for Charles Joseph de Ficquelmont de Vyle and his descendants in the Ficquelmont Family (extinct in 1948 in male line and in 1991 in female line).
Furthermore, the Ficquelmonts have been ''
lord
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Dieuze
Dieuze (; ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
People
Dieuze was the birthplace of:
*Charles Hermite, mathematician
* Edmond François Valentin About, novelist, publicist and journalist
* Émile Friant, ...
Flin
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See also
*Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
References
Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle
...
and others lordships.
Coat of arms
The
blazon
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of this family
coat of arms
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is: ''Or, gules three enhanced pickets, ensigned with a passant wolf sable''.
The family's
motto
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is "Nul ne m'atteint"
Extinction of the Ficquelmont family in 1948 and 1991
The Ficquelmont family and the title of count de Ficquelmont became extinct in male line in 1948 with Louis-Charles de Ficquelmont de Vyle and in the female line in 1991 with countess Ghislaine de Ficquelmont de Vyle,Régis Valette, ''Catalogue de la noblesse française'',
Robert Laffont
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, Paris, 2007. but the name "de Ficquelmont" was transmitted through adoption to Jean d'Albis who was adopted by the countess Ghislaine de Ficquelmont de Vyle and since used the name Jean d'Albis de Ficquelmont.
Robert Laffont
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...